Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-22
NO HUSBANDS FOR THEM
Old Maids In New England Thick as
Dead Leaves in the FsIl-S0me Curl
Gus Statistics that Will Interest
Those who Want Husbands or Wives-Not
Enough Mon to Go acknowledgements
tina: Have SIandered the Spinstsrs.
New York Mail and Express.

day, which | shall reproduce Tor their
bearing on G question Of the hours
pressing question IL the east, ct least
the growing number Of unmarried
women. II one CT the smaller New En-
gland towns, where il seemed as if the
family were almost ceasing TO be the
unit OF society, ! met g woman WAC for
some years back has kept Il record Of the
girls who have graduated from the high
school Of me yilI4ge, VIVA. they nave
done, and Whist, up t. d8Ce, hiss become
Of them. She gave me her figures for
the classes from ISL to 1876, from
sixteen 70 eleven years ego, ard
strange figures for any marrying
CT giving N marriage community
t1ey seem. The average sge Of the
graduates from Z typical New EOgland
nigh school is between sixteen and seven
teen wears Hence il would seem that
the women Of whom this list has been
kept, ranging Ct present from twenty
seven to thirtysiX years Old, have done
the greater proportion of all the "5ettlIng
in life" which they 2Te likely to DO.
There werr nineteen girls in the class
of 1911. Of tnis number, five have
married, four have died OF consumption
ten are unmarried OK the sixteen girls
Of So, six nave married and ten are
single OF the tWenty-Oue Of 1873, three
are married and eighteen are single. OF
the thirteen Ct 1874, Two have married,
five have died OF consumption and six ere
single. OF the thirteen Ct 1879, FIVE nave
married, one has died IF consumption
and seven single. OF the seventeen OF
1876, six have married, one has died of
consumption aud ten are slngie-making
fora total Of ninety graduates, twenty
seven marriages, eleven deaths and sixty
one women thus far single. No account
is taken Of the years since 1876, because,
as the average age st marriage is aQvauC-
ing, no fair conclusion could be drawn
from the younger classes. The proper
ton of single women, il VIII be seen, is
nearly twO-t1Ids u the whole number
Whether this town IS fairly representa-
tive Of Its section l hSYe no means OF
knowing, nor whether the same proper
zion viii hold among tie unsch0oled or
less schOOled girls Of the place. There is
no obvious reason why il should not,
however, Tor high school education is
not sufficiently exalted 10 rouse in nv
mind the suspicion lhat the girl who has
subjected herself 10 it has thereby unfit
ted herself Tor the domestic duties of life.
Tae eleven deaths were one and all
from east wind consumption, which
gets TO be hereditary and plays
dIrefUl havoc in families. There have
been two cases OF insanity, out these both
occurred among the married twenty
seven. The largest mum er Of children
in the families of the married IS three.
Three rot the ninety-n1ne girls went to
college sitter leaving ire nigh school,
but these are in the married list.
OF the unmarried siXtv-oGe, twenty
ore follow very usual feminine trade
they are scao0l ma 'amS--one at Hsmp.
ton teaching the IEdlaGs, under General
Armstrong; twenty in public schools a. G
academies. Three set tyre, one read,
proof, one Is the head dressmaker in s
dry goods es abi-hment, four dress.
make on smaller scale, three are music
teachers, one has studied medicine, tif
teen are stitChers and button hole makers
n shoe shops, and the rest are home
st8ye~s.
FEW MARRIAGEABLE YOUNG MEN.
Just wnst has brought shout such ;
preponderance of spinsterhoOd il wOul(
De hard to say. People hsye contendeC
t5st it didn't exist, and have explained
the immense surplus of women in New
England on the suppositiOn that most o
them are widows, made so by the hoZ
ardous occupation of the men on tn,
eastern coast. Widows there are il
plenty, but these sixty one-aGd every
body who knows anything of New Eng
land Will dnd il an easy MISTER to call n
plenty of similar inst8rCes-have Ger
tainly never married; probably most o
them have never had 81 opportunity Il
marry. There ere very few maTriagea bl
-, 10,
tine in shy smallish New EuglSnd town
Tle serene quiet of the most lethaFgi
section Of hese United State
doesn't suit young man. He goe
away before he is old enough to MARI
and the chances are he doesn't come bacI
sgair. lie is g drummer out on the roe
somewhere, or he finds his wsy into bug
ness il Boston, New York or the west.
Ne makes vacation trip home ne IS in
pressed by the lack of money III New Eng
land, outside the cities, by the length (
time since the houses nave been painted
and the amount Of calculation require
before q dollar can be expended. II
d0esu'G stay lorg enough 70 learn to sd
miTc the hardy thrift that can wiring
COmf0rtsble support out OF rocky so
where : New Yorker would sta1ve or con
init suicide. and the girls he left benin
him cannot compare, so he thinks on hi
return, for beSuty OF dress or pretty cG
cue.rl ofmanper or small talk CT societ
With The city eiIl who hiss become insel
sibly his standard # gjrl1Qod. \ I tn;
he expects to ma!ry the city girl, not
all, no. the newspapers have slandere
her to the transplanted country youn
man until, between ice cream in summt
and seslskins in winter, ciyiljZauC
would be justified. if it put much faith
newspapers, in 1in2lng its girl babi
into the Charles river, or the Hudson,
rid the world OF such useless Incur
ORANGES. The fairly well-meaning 81
domestic young man thinks he doesr
approve OF the city girl, but her chic h
none the less surely spoiled the count
girl for him, the usual result being II
he goes into bachelors lodgings until
has untitled himself in tastes and habi
to marry at all. =
These things considered, it is fortuna
for the spinster thst she is beginning
think it 8 natural and not altogether u
pleasant safe Of s1iirs to be aspinste
They do not look TO sn unhappy lot, the
Nav ENGLAND old maids For one thin